Newly released reports from the Pulse nightclub massacre document the horrors witnessed by Orange County sheriff’s deputies.

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In the chaos, deputies could hear the active shooter. One described entering Pulse and seeing "so many lifeless bodies lying throughout the club that it was impossible to physically check every one."

Another said the floor was "covered in blood.”

Another wrote he had to "ignore the obviously dead" to preserve life.

Another deputy who made entry said the shooter left behind "multiple spent long gun shell casings, and two rifle magazines on the floor."

There were "countless bodies stacked on top of each other, from one end of the room to the other," a deputy said.

More of the newly released reports detail how, when deputies discovered someone with a pulse, they dragged or carried them to safety.

Once outside of the nightclub, they separated critical patients from the so-called walking wounded.

One woman with a gaping wound to her wrist that left her bone visible pleaded with a deputy "I'm scared, please talk to me. I don't want to die."

The new documents also explain how deputies requested protective shields to defend themselves from the still-active shooter and were advised by dispatch that "the shield will not stop rifle fire."

During the rescue effort, a deputy noted being told by dispatch the person responsible "could possibly be affiliated with a terrorist organization," and the suspect who had already inflicted so much death and destruction at the club claimed to have explosive devices.

For their own safety deputies were ordered to move back to safer positions- one "told neighboring 7-Eleven clerk to turn off the gas pumps."

Deputies watched the Orlando Police Department's SWAT team attempt to blow a hole in the wall, finally breaching it with a police bearcat.

"I heard a gunshot from the area of the breach," one deputy reported, apparently from the gunman.

After approximately 150 shots from SWAT, a report of gunman having gone down went out at 5:31 a.m.

According to these documents, more than 125 Orange County deputies were called to respond to the Pulse nightclub massacre.